Juneteenth has taken on a symbolic national reverence as the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas, but, in reality, the emancipation proclamation didn’t end slavery, and neither did the civil war. Reporter Nicole Ellis revisits Galveston, Texas, where General Gordon Granger delivered an order that emancipated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas. Granger clarifying words on the value of black life in America distinguishes Juneteenth as emancipation day. But our ability to live up to that ideal as a nation is best measured in, the days, weeks, and years that followed. Read more: SPECIAL OFFER: To thank you for your support, here’s a deal on a Washington Post digital subscription: $29 for one year
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I had a wonderful history professor in college. I have so much respect for my white history professor. I found out later on that my son’s high school history teacher had the same teaching style as my college professor. I asked him about it and to my surprise we had the same college professor.
I keep seeing comments about BlackDOS History & truth, .i.e. Juneteenth, Not being taught in (I assume public) Schools. That's embarassing at best, to hear from a BlackAmericanDOS. Why…⁉️ I'm glad you asked⚠️💯 Because that story as well as many others Should be taught @ "HOME" 🏘and perhaps @ BlackDOS places of 'WORSHIP'🙏🏿 as well as BlackDOS🎙📺 Media❗I'm not from Texas, I know of it, and Red soda water❗💯Jis sayin'✊🏿
In charlotte nc the juneteenth celebration turned into a mini war zone multiple casualties mass injuries over 400bullets fired and no witnesses came forward
What does that say about our community
I've never heard of this Holliday but I don't plan on celebrating it. Before people start being racist and call me whitey or a racist I am an "American with back skin" I do not consider myself an African American I didn't come from Africa my ancestors did but I didn't I came from America. The reason I wont celebrate this is because the only way it was brought to my attention was from racist black Americans that tell me I need to celebrate this because I'm black and because I should remember what was done to my people. My grandfather used to tell me about the times where black men and women were hated and killed for the color of there skin. But every time he told me about those days he always smiled and one day I asked him why he kept smiling after talking about those terrible things and he said: "I smile because I'm allowed to smile. Because my story has a happy ending. I smile because these are just stories to you and not your life you can go wherever you want and talk to who ever you want. I smile because you are free." We shouldn't celebrate this because we are told to we should just stop for one second and smile and remember where we are today because of the people black and most importantly white who got us here if it weren't for a few brave white men who stood in front of a whole nation and said "no" when everyone told them no or tried to stop them we would never have been able to call ourselves free or Americans
We need our reparations period
This young woman is amazingly beautiful
Thank God for Juneteenth and Kwanzaa. I am a Black man and I am still waiting for my 40 acres and a mule. Better yet give me 40 acres and a Bentley that an easy solution. All the racism needs to end. Black Lives Matter. Blame Donald Trump for starting the racism ruckus he started, now he should fix it with all the violence he caused as President. He is a violent Racist President and David Duke and the KKK and Neo-Nazis approve President Donald Trump tactics. President Trump's father Fred Trump was a member of the KKK. Trump motto of Making America Great Again is to Make America a Racist town and purely White as snow and the KKK as the slave owners of our African ancestors.
Absolutely wonderful. I'm just sorry I didn't see this video on Juneteenth itself.
What a beautiful sista.
The Constitution is nothing but affirmative action for Caucasians, they didnt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, favorable govt policies created the whyte middle/upper class
Slavery a product of the Democrat party…150yrs later not much has changed…sad
Don’t forget about black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK. Don’t forget Jesus is black! Don’t forget all this whiteness that is shoved to down our throats! Don’t forget how whites today still oppress blacks by their fake statues, lies, history books and so on…
The Miseducation of The United States.
June 19th. On this final JUNETEENTH YOU GET THAT SLUT ANNOUNCEMENT!. CALLING THEM OUT!.
I need to meet them im from Louisiana born and raised hardly anyone talks about slavery in my town i really really have a deep passion to my roots but i have nowhere to start
great video, keep up the the good work, we have to learn from our history or we are doom to repeat it in the future
The last actual slave trip and ship that landed on American borders was in 1880 when the American Army found out that the South was trying to smuggle slaves from the Caribbean in Africa here still the Confederate set the boat on fire only Survivor was Cato
The whole point of the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't to free all slaves it was just to maintain the freedom of slaves who was already free if they purchased a freedom or if they was freed by they Master they couldn't be sold back into slavery the Emancipation Proclamation was supposed to be a truce between the North one saying no slavery in the South wanting slavery the biggest problem was free people being resold and sent back into slavery so Abraham Lincoln thought to appease both sides the north okay no slaves could be taken back I mean no free people could be taken back into slavery but for the South if you don't free a slave then that's on you but they didn't read the fine print and killed them before he really got to explain the whole thing
That narrator girl is mad pretty.
Blacks are racist
Sad, sad world we are living in. Growing worse each day. Filled with so much evil and hatred towards each other. GOD PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US! May we come to know you as our God and Saviour before our days on earth is over.